DSCC hits Mourdock as 'extremist' on Ind. radio

11/2/12 1:24 PM EDT

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Commitee is putting just over $200,000 behind a radio ad in Indiana calling GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock a "Tea Party extremist."

The radio ad, shared early with POLITICO, quotes Mourdock saying he wants to "inflict [his] opinion on someone else," and also includes his now-infamous comments on pregnancy from rape being "something that God intended to happen."

"Really? God intended a rape to happen or a pregnancy? No wonder the Louisville Courier-Journal called Mourdock a 'Tea Party extremist,'" the ad's narrator says. "The Indianapolis Star concluded Mourdock would be ‘disastrous’ for the state. The Lafayette Journal and Courier said Mourdock was ‘troubling’ and ‘strictly partisan.’ And is that what we really want for Indiana?"

Mourdock's comments on rape have been a huge gift to Democrats in the race, and polling shows Democrat Joe Donnelly ahead. Alex posted earlier today on the Howey/DePauw poll that gave Donnelly an 11-point advantage.